The Sun. — London, England, 1810-01-08 00:00:00

MR. CANNING TO MR. I'INCKNRV. Foreign Office, May 27, 1809. SlR—According to the intimation which I gave to you in our last conference, I have now the honour to inclose to you a copy of the Order in Council, which his Majesty has direCted to be issued;for the Purpose of preventing, as far as possible 'anY incon-; ventence or detriment to the Merchants of the' Dnited States, who may have entered into corn:;' tnereial speculations on the faith of the unauthoris ed engagements of Mr. Erskine, previously to the n otification in America, of his Majesty's disavowal of those engagements. Having had the honour to read to you in extenso, t he instruaions with which Mr. Erskine was fur n.ished, it is not necessary for me to enter into any e xplanation of those points in which Mr. Erskine nas acted, not only in non-conformity, but in direct c ontradiction to them. forbear equally, from troubling you, Sir, with a ny comment, on the manner 'in which Mr. Er 4kine's communications have been received by the • Atnerican Government, or upon the terms and spirit °f Mr. Smith's share of the consideration. Such observations will be communicated more Properly through the Minister, whom his Majesty has directed to proceed to America, not on v ial mission (which Mr. Erskine was not authorised 44 promise, except upon conditions, not one of I °ltich he has obtained), but as the successor of 6 4r. Erskine, whom his Majesty bat not lost a filo kent in recalling. I have the honour to be, With great conisderatiOn, Your most obedient humble Seivani . , (Signed) GEOildE CA MR.I`INCKNEY'S AN , 'Great Cumberlan4-place, Ma} , 2Q, 13(4'. have 'prceived the cotnniunlcation which tl'ou (lid The the honour to addres§ to me on the 27th illstatit, and will hl.sten to transmit it to the Score tlity of State of the United Statet. No instructions or information from my Govern -Ibent, concerning the ttansactions in Ameri'ca, to 'Which your communication alludes, having yet c ach e d Me, Lean only exprest my concern; that conciliatory arrangements tOncerted and con- !laded, as you have done me the honour to inform t ie, bettVeen the Atilerican Secretary of Stat e and 48 Majesty's accredited Mini s ter at Washington, geting in consequetiCe i and professing to aet in pur buance, of regular instructions from his Court; 'are l ot likely to hate all th a t e ff e et which was naturally t to have been expected ftom them. I have the honour to be, with great consideration; '"tr., your most obedient, humble servant, W. PiNcK&Ey. Right Hon. Genrge Canning, &c. (The Corresponitynce relative 'to France in, our next.) MAILS. ARR I V ID -2 Cadiz, z Lisbon, 2 hublin, S Watcrford. btrz--3 Gottenburgh, z Waterford. • PRICE Or fOCKS THIS DA Y AT TWZLV E. O'CLOCK. Consols for Opining 70i Red. Ann. - - 69 THE SUNS *OLEIC QUIS DICL:Lk 1AL31./M_AUDEAT LONDON, MONDAY, SANtIrARY 8, 1810. The Princess Charlotte is arrived in the Downs, l aving under convoy the three Indiatnen, Monarch, ktr/ Spencer, and Lord Keith. Mr, SMITH, a pas 'anger on board the Earl Spencer has communicated following pleasing intelligence; of the truth of I‘ t hich we have no doubt . :— , -On the 21st Sept. the t t'wn and garrison of St. Paul's, in the Island of Boor bo4. was taken by our cruizing squadron off the Isles ° F France and Bourbon, under the command of Com. ll awt.zy, of tile Raisona&le, with the Boadicea, ' 3 iri us and Nereide frigates, and Otter sloop, assisted b Y a party of the Atli Regiment, and some Bombay 4 ei)oys, from Rodriguez, under Lieut. Col. KEAT -142 of the .56th.—When the town was captured, t here were found in the Roads, and taken possession I II ?, the French frigate La Caroline, of 48 guns, with t he Streatham and Europe, two regular Indiamen, h er prizes; a small privateer, formerly the Grappler 1 114 4-brig, with several other small vessels, the whole ! (/1 Which had arrived at the Cape, (except the Eu -Iv, sent to Bombay) under convoy of. the Otter. helVeriede had arrived at the Cape, with the Cap `l4lll of the Caroline, and about 100 French prison -4rs• ,NO English Officer& were killed in the capture t/ f St. Paul's. Last night we received Spanish and Portuguese i 'aPers, the former to the 16th, and the latter to the 4th ult. the contents of which will be found in the last Page,' and this morning we received the follow additional important intelligence regpeEling, the Illovernents of Lord WELLINTON'S Army : CO PY Or A LETTER FROM LORD WELLINGTON TO THE JUNTA OF EATRAMADURA. " SENOR, r e I have the honour to inform your Ex,ccliency, t hat the events of the war in Old Castile have ren dered it unnecessary to carry in execution the m ovement which I some time ago designed of re moving, with the British army under my command, 1(1 the north of the Tagus; consequently sortie of t he troops will commence their march to-morrow 11) (41141g: It affords me satisfa&lon to know that respedt to the position occupied by the enemy's tr °ops, the said movement can still be carried into Wee; notwithstanding the disasters as well in Cas tile as La Mancha, without compromising the safety t 'f' the Province of Enramadnra.. 11 , 1 y bead-yin tors however remain here for some dap, and r shall not fail to profit by this circumstance, to re turn' your Excellency the most sincere acknow= ledgments for the very polite attentions I have re ceived during my stayarnong your Ekcellencies ; as ,also for the zeal and indefatigable care with . which your Excelleticy has furnished the provisions re• quired by the detachtnent of the army under my command, which has been cantoried in this pro= vince. r assure your Excellency that I sensibly regret that circumstances of the greatest importance to the general cause oblige me to remove my trooPs to another part of the country, separating 'Myself fioni persons to whoin I am under so many obliga tions; and I intreat your Excetkncy to be assured that .1' shall feel the greatest pla'stire in 'opportuni ties of being useful to the providce of Esfratuadura. and 'city of Badajoz, and that I shall 'hive much satisfa&ion in hearing of its security and welfare.— I believe that the British army is not much in debted to this province ; but if bycbance it should, I haVe ordered the Commissary General 'to pay Whatever may 'be owing, leaving 'a person here to liquidate slid) accounts as may retnain unset fled, and . especially those relating to the plot, isions supplied when the British army passed through Plarentla. " I have the honour to be, with the 'highest eon "sideratioli, most txcelletit Sii; your Excellency's it ost obedient furnible serVant,. " 4 WELLINGTON." EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER DEC. Alajesty's ship Coigns, with 1 merchant ships and - nine Iranspot•ts, stip•- posed to have wounded troops on board; sailed fur England on %he 1 Ith instant. Tire troops are all in motion from Badaioz, They at-lived at Elvas last Sunday ; they are ex peeled at Abrantes to-day, and are to proceed im mediately to Leiria, to which place s." 0 0 .0 dollars have been sent from hence to-day, it is of course uncertain where the head -quarters will'be establish ed, but it is expected that a strong 'forge will im mediately march to Coimbra and Oporto." SEVILLE, .DEC.12.. , ..-The accounts we conti nualls- receive from Old Castile, and which bring the details Of the late attion of the Duke del . PA RQUE, are most 110:101113ble to our troops, though the enciny remained in possession of the.field of battle, and our army was obliged to retire to the Pena de Francia; the division of the van-guard alone performed prodigies of valour ; and caused the evenly the loss of 4000 men. This lossmay appear very great to those who are ignorant that our troops made three ,complete discharges within the distanc e of halt pisrol shut. Our loss is not more than 2000 Men, in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Nothing ew has occurred in he armies of La Carolina and Estkamadura. We give this day e Lotar ftom Mr. SMITH to Mr. PINKNEY, dated 23d November as wail as a Letter froth Mr. CANNING to Mr. PINKNEY of the. 27th May last; and Mr. PINKNRY'S answer. Mrs CANNING'S Letter is that to which Mr. SMITH al ludes in his correspond ence with Mr. JACKSON, a signifying that the explanation of the grounds of his Majesty's disavow al of Mr. ERSKINE'S arrangment " would most properly be communicated through the successor of Mr. EnsKINE." A reference to the document in 'question proves this to have been a to' tal and gross misrepresentation on the part of Mr. Mr. CANNIN G says, that " having read to Mr. JACKSON in extenso, the instruelions with which Mr. EttsKINE was filrnisbed, it is not necessary for him to: enter into explanation," &c. and continues, I forbear equally from troubling yon with any com ment on the manner in which Mr. ERSKINE'S corn muni‘ations have been received, or upon the terms and spirit of Mr. SMITH'S Shared the consideration. Such observations (not those relating to the disc' vowal) ‘, will be communicated more properly through the Minister' whom his .Majesty has direaled to proceed to America." On Saturday a Flag of Truce sailed from Dover for France, with two Gentlemen, belonging to th e Austrian Legation. A Writer in an Opposition Paper of this morning has undertaken to give what he calls " a rapid sketch of the LIVERPOOL and PERCeVAL Adminis tration ;" it is obvious, however; from - his state ment, either that he is wholly ignorant of the events of the last five years, or else that he meant to make a covert attack upon the late Administration. He sets out with, accusing the present Ministers with having forced Russia into a War with this Country. It is difficult to. conceive how any man,. however blinded by tile spirit of Party, could gravely advance such a proposition. If, however, he be serious, of which we entertain some doubts, we should be obliged to him to state his proofs, for most un doubtedly all the . .evidence at present before the Pub lic leads to a direEtly opposite c,onclusion.. We should be glad to ask this Gentleman whether it was hater or the present Ministers that alienate Russia from us, and threw her info the arm; of France ? - Was it the late or the preSent Ministers that refused to co-operate with Russia and Prussia,to check the French progress in the North of Europe ? Was it the late or the present Ministers t hat refused, notwithStanding the preS4ing and repeated solicita tions of Russia, to atfoid any assistance to the com mon cause, even when the French were engaged in the siege of Dantzic ? - The ane.wer to these queb titans., it given with truth, must shew the absurdity o f attributing the defetition of Russia tO the present Minis ters. Another charge against AdMil.istration is, tha t t hey have not attempted to make a diversion in favou r 01 Austria. How the late Ministers, who resolutely refused to afford any assistance to the Continent, will reliA this accusation, we do not know, but it cer tainlydoeS not apply to the present Administration , because they did undoubtedly make unparalleled exertions to effect a 'diversion in favour of Austria. But it seems as if the Writer, to whom we, allude, was determined that all his charges against Mr. PER 'cevA.L and Lord LivEaroot. should tell with double force against their predecessors, for he accuses the former for having attacked a '" neutral Power during Peace." The propriety and even the necessity (. 1- th 6 EXpedition against Copenhagen have been so fully proved, that it would be a waste of time t o offer any more arguments upon the subje&. But if the attack upon a Neutral Power, during Peace, even though called for by the pressing emergency of the case, be so culpable an aCI, how will the advo cates of the late Ministers defend them for the attack upon Egypt, and for the forcing the passage of the Dardanelles ? • Constantinople, it is true, was" not bombarded, but that was not the fault of Lord GRENVILLE'S Administration, but arose merely from the circumstance of our fleet not being able to get near enough to batter it. Turkey was then a Neutral Power, and the attack was not only made during Peace, as the Writer alluded to sagaciously observes, but during a Negotiation. With respeat to the other charges, viz, that Ministers hare wantonly pro voked a War with America, and an insurrection in India, they are really too absurd to deserve notice. • Yesterday morning his MAJESTY and Princess Au- GUSTA, accompanied by Lady C. WALDEGRAVE, and -GeneraI.MANNEIIS, rude to St. George's ChaptA, and heard a sermon, preached by the Rev. Dr. HEATH, from St. Jamws's, chap. ii. v. 24. and afterwards re turned to the Palace. Friday his MAJESTY, with Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, took their usual morning's airing, on horseback, in Windsor Great Piak, till halt past twelve o'clock, accompanied by Lady CRANLEY, Lord ST. HELEN'S, Generals SPENCER, MANNERS, CARTWRIGHT, and Colonel TAYLOR. Yesterday, being .the birth-day of her Royal Highness Princess CHARLOTTE at WALES, she re c: ived the congratulations of his Royal Highness the Prince Of WALES, the Dukes of Youx, KENT, CUM BERLAND and CAMBRIDGE ; the Duchess of Bittsilts- WICK, the Duke of BRUNSWICK OILS, and a great cumber of the Nobility and Gentry, at Warwick house, and in the evening her Royal Highness the Princess Of WALES gave a grand entertainment, at her apartments in Kensington Palace, on the occa sion. Nothing certain is yet known- rela(ive"to BONA PARTE'S choice of a new wife. To the three Prin cesses (namely, those of Russia, Austria, and Sax ony), of which conjeeture has at ditTerent tirnes made mention, a fourth is stated in a private letter, receiv ed by the last conveyance, of which the following is an extra& : " PARIS, DEC. 25.—Our speculations as to our new Empress are nearly at an end, as it is confident ly reported, on the authority of those who are sup posed to be best acquainted with the political views of NAPOLEON, that the Heiress of the House of Sar dinia it t 9 have the first 'refusal of the Impetial dignity." The Princess CaRISTIANA, wife of the hereditary Prince of DENMARK, who a shoat time since was deteded carrying on an intrigue 'with a French dancer, arrived lately at Nyborg, under a guard. She was betrayed by her own chamber-maid and the Mince her husband, it is said, lon having ocular demonstration of his dishonour, dragged her by the hair out of the room, and would have killed her but: for the intercession of his father. In order to faci litate the pardon of her paramour, she subsequently acknowledged having seduced him. Great numbers of French troops are gliding almost imperceptibly into the country of Holland. Instead of pouring into it by divisions or brig:ides, which might excite universal alarm, they ar e stealin g . in by battalions,, or regiments at most. Sn considerable, however, is the number which has gained admit-- lance in this way, that it is calCulated there will be before the middle of this month a French army of fifty thousand men assembled in Holland. The Dutch and French .force destined to reoc cupy the Island of Walcheren after the evacuation, consisted of 10,000 men. A disastrous report re spetling the fate of a great part of these had reached Amsterdam on the evening of the 30th ult. It stated, that as two or three thousand of them were passing over to Waleheren, a sudden and violent squall came on, in which severak of the frail craft to which they had committed themselves foundered, and some hundreds perished. It is intended that Midshipmen who have served their time in the Navy shall in future pass their examinations at the. ports to which their vessels may belong, instead of being obliged, as heretofore, to come to the Navy Office, in Somerset-place, for that purpose. CORN-EXCHANGE, JAN. S.—To-day the faesh ar rivals of4Vheat are inconsiderable, but the large f)- reign arrivals causes dull sales, at rather lower price,.; fine Dantzic exceeds the currency ; Barley is cheaper excepting fine; Malt and White Peans are lower; beans of both sorts vary but little; Oats are in-toler able supply and maintains last quotation ; Flour rdly supprts late prices. NAVAL NEWS. ; PixrdouTir, J. Majesty' s ung of 18 guns, Capt. BUCK, 113 S detained an.! sent in here the American brig Triton, of New York THOMPSON master, from thence, with a cargo con sisting of coffee, cotton-wool, tobacco, whale-oil' and logwood, bound to Tonningen ; sailed on thu sth beceinher, and was detained on the 3d inst. Arrived his Majesty's ship Erlipse from a cruizei spoke a vessel in the Channel, flow whom h is said "she received intelligence that the Island of Bourbon had surrendered to the English. Arrived. his Majesty's ship Surveillante, Captnin Sir GEORGE COLLIER, from a CriliT.C.' Sailed his Majesty's ship Ploi. , er,Capt2io BRowx , on a cruize. Arrived the ketch Mary, of thisaiort, Master, from Lisbon ;on the instant, at night, fell in with his Majesty's ship Princess Charlotte, of 38 guns, Captain TOBIN, from St. Helana, with the following ships under convoy from thence, viz. Earl Spencer, Lord Keith, and Monarch, extra ships ; the Mary received on board dispatches from the Prin cess Charlotte, which were landed at the Admiral's Office this Morning; the weather having been very hazy for the last two days, that it is not possible to , ascertain whether they hare passed by this port; the Mary parted company immediately after receiving the dispatches. • Sailed his' Majesty's schooner Nonpareil, Lieut. DICKENSON, for Falmonth,with Tuscan, Thomas, and-Mary, and two other transports, under convoy, laden with stores and provisions, bound to Gibraltar. Arrived his Majesty's ship Pi/cat', Capt. HILLYAR, -from the Baltic. Sailed his Majesty's ship Milford, Capt. BAYN• TUAI, for Portsmouth. Went up the harbour to be repaired his Majesty's ships Phcele and Surveillante. 'The Surveillante frigate, that arrived here yester day from the squadron under ildmiral STOPFoRP, which ,she left on Saturday last in Quiberon Roads, on passing Bellisle, tell in with his Majesty's ship aliance, the boats of which ship had cut out, in El 8 most gallant manner, from a strongly defended po sition, and dose under the fortifications of the Palais (Bellisle) a very large British West Indiam3n, which had been captured by a French privateer ; she is lac lued at 80,0001. and may be hourly expe6ted in here, as she was to sail on • Sunday laat, in company with a portu g ueze Brazil ship (captured by the Christian the Vilth.) and to be convoyed to this port by the Minorca frigate. His Majesty's ship Pilate, that arrived here this morning, towed in a large ship which it is supposed she fell in with in destress at sea ; she is supposed to be be laden with hemp. Remain in Cawsand By, Sound, Hamoaze, &c. his Majesty's ships Surveillance, Dreadnough,a Phcete, Argus, La Rhin, Shannon, Cossack, Seine, tPeazle, Britannia, Philomel, Daphne, Pheasant, Adrian, Helena, Amethyst, Encounter, Implacable; Formidable, Terneraire, and Van guard. PORTSMOUTH, JA (i.—Went out of Harbortr. the Tice Mary Ann, GOODMAN, and Swift, DOWEY the former for St. Michael's, and the latter for Malta‘ Arrived the Jam - and ;Vary, BROWN, from Shields, arid the /I illiarn and Ildnry, BAGGS, from Guernsey. Sailed yesterday the ship illezander, TURNBULL, for the West Indies; also the Penelope, DArrsoN, Dido, TAYLon, Charlotte, DAVISON, and ..imphion, JOHNSON, for Sunderland. Came in his Majesty's ship Rattler, from New foundland ; also his Majesty's ship Milford, from Basque Roads. DOVER, JArr. 7.—The 14th Regiment came in here from Deal yesterday, on its. way to Steyning, and to-day, ihe sth Regiment, from the some place, on tts route to Bexhill —both are from the island of Walcheren. A flag of truce sailed yesterday noon for France, with two Gtaitlemen of the Austrian Legation. Yesterday the Rinaldo sloop of war sent in a Inge smuggling lugger, with upwards of 500 nabs of con traband spirits. FALMOUTH, JAN. s. —Arrived the tralsingham. packet, RoBARTs, from Lisbon, in twelve days, with mails ; the Nucton packet, BLIGHT, from Ca diz with mails in nineteen days ; the Groivler gun brig, from Po, tsmouth, to give instrnalions to 'vessels for Portugal and Spain. Sailed the 'Sandwich lugger with a fleet of enast. ers for Ireland ; Ail, Ellis, ELLIOTT, f.n . • Liver- Fool ; the outward bound packets for An4-rica, Spain, Portugal, and Mediterranean, are detained by contrary wind. The packets from Cadiz and. Portugal bring no news whateier ; the surrender of Gerrora waa not ?mown at either place. BRIXIIAM-QUAY, JAS. 6.—Sailed his Majf:st) NW,i) Tonnunt, Gif ictltar , Arethesa, and Pisct•te, I.zik ut ne ha tn ite3 ler- the per ced of ►fir. ter in d.it • gad he Ops ET the 1 r a dr. es. an of :k -at as !n -lo